What sucks about AZ
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:12 pm
Certainly not the mountains. After a fairly successful week of driving around the state chasing DPS peaks, I came home to a letter from the AZ Department of Public Safety that I have been somewhat of a public nuisance, and the cost of driving 67mph in a 55mph zone is a whopping $181. It might have helped if I clued in that the state has these photo radar detectors all over the Phoenix area, but, well, I was clueless.
So my question is, do people just suck it up and pay these things? Seems like highway robbery, literally, and I find it disconcerting that my own state of CA would cooperate with such tactics by providing vehicle and owner ID. And should I buy stock in the company that makes the Redflex Smartcam Mobile Speed Van System? Because it seems like these things could pay for themselves in about an hour's time.
So my question is, do people just suck it up and pay these things? Seems like highway robbery, literally, and I find it disconcerting that my own state of CA would cooperate with such tactics by providing vehicle and owner ID. And should I buy stock in the company that makes the Redflex Smartcam Mobile Speed Van System? Because it seems like these things could pay for themselves in about an hour's time.